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TIL Las Vegas looked like your ordinary spaghetti western town in 1910

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P1nxO TIL that a man notorious for killing people with an axe in New Orleans sent a note to the police which he stated he would attack the town but any house that played jazz music would be spared. That night across the city, people flooded into bars and houses blasting jazz. Nobody died that day.
00ev TIL about the Flyby Anomaly: when spacecraft do Earth-flybys at certain angles, they experience a small but sudden velocity increase, which is still unexplained. One of the proposed explanations is the existence of a ring of dark matter around Earth.
wo41 TIL that Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal,Tesla Motors, and founder of SpaceX, attended Stanford college for 2 days before dropping out and starting Zip2, a company which he sold 4 years later for 307 million dollars
KORrG TIL there was a period in French history where the country actually was represented by a plain white flag.
wAJ6 TIL that the sloppy handwriting of doctors kills more than 7,000 people annually. Preventable medication mistakes also injure more than 1.5 million Americans annually